Big news in the typically moribund world of the newspaper funny pages this week, as fans old and new descend into shockingly heated arguments about pseudonymous writer and artist Olivia Jaimes, and her recent takeover of long-running comic strip Nancy. The news comes—
Nat Geo’s TV biopic anthology Genius announced the subject for its upcoming third season today, with Frankenstein author Mary Shelley getting the nod. Shelley will be the first female focus for the series, which previously covered the lives of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso. The show’s producers were reportedly…
Saturday Night Live released the names of its final two hosts for its 43rd season today, with a returning Amy Schumer taking up the job on May 12 (with Kacey Musgraves as her musical guest), and beloved alum Tina Fey handling the season finale with a returning Nicki Minaj. Schumer, presumably, will be promoting her…
According to Deadline, the horror masters at Blumhouse have picked up the rights to “Worst Roommate Ever,” a harrowing New York Magazine article about exactly what it says in the title. Surprisingly, Blumhouse is planning to make film and TV adaptations of the story, with the movie version most likely being a…
As initially teased way back in 2016, it looks like Homeland will really be coming to an end after one more season. That’s according to star Claire Danes, who would know better than anyone, as she recently appeared on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show and confirmed that the show’s eighth season will be its last. Danes…
Senator Bernie Sanders is an effortlessly cool dude who is always right about everything, at least far as half of Reddit is concerned (the other half worships a different political idol), and today he once again played to his coolest supporters by hopping on Twitter and saying that he agrees with Cardi B about the…
Given her energy, enthusiasm, and abundant comic talents, its kind of surprising that Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones hasn’t starred in more movies. (Even her most high-profile roles, like Ghostbusters, have been ensemble pieces.) That’s about to change, though, with Deadline reporting that Jones will be the…
MoviePass has always seemed like it’s too good to be true, partly because paying the flat rate to see as many movies as you want is a surprisingly good deal and partly because the companies that make movies and run theaters absolutely hate it, but a Variety report suggests that MoviePass might not have much time left…
Over the last week, Kanye West has come roaring back into the public eye, first with an announcement that he’s writing a philosophy book called Break The Simulation that partly involves the weird artificiality of taking photographs and then with some proper brain-blowing tweets about how “some people have to work…
Ajit Pai, America’s 12th-best Bernie Madoff cosplayer, has been busy during his time as chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Whether it’s mocking the public he’s been appointed to serve or just talking down to his fellow commission members, Pai has made his blithely hypocritical stances no secret.
Bruno Sammartino, one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling history, has died. No specific cause of death has been provided, but according to CBS’ Pittsburgh affiliate, Sammartino had been battling “health issues” for the last two months and passed away with his wife and two sons by his side. He was 82.
There’s something nostalgic about sitting down in a dim movie theater, a striped cup of soda in your hand and a giant bucket of buttery popcorn between your legs. The red velvet curtains part and the projector beams its scratchy, old-timey countdown as your belly prepares not just for those delicious kernels, but also…
This summer marks the 20th anniversary of seminal hip-hop album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and Lauryn Hill is marking the occasion with a special anniversary tour dedicated to the album. Hill will be performing Miseducation in full, and each stop on the tour will feature “special guest performers” that haven’t…
Remember in 2016 when everybody was saying, “Can’t wait for this year to be over!” and then 2017 came and everybody was like, “Oh no, it can get worse?” Well, it seems the plan for 2018 is to press the pedal to the metal in the ol’ apocalypse machine and get this thing over with because, as reported by Motherboard,…
A lot has changed in the nearly quarter of a century since Dumb and Dumber’s 1994 release. Jim Carrey, for instance, has studiously worked at erasing years of unshakeable goodwill with a never-ending self-serious phase that runs from goofy political protest paintings to the aimless philosophizing that fills his…
What, you thought we meant Leia? No, we mean the longest and truest love of Han Solo’s life, the girl he loved and lost and loved again—the Millennium Falcon. In the dynamic new TV spot for Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover, stealing the show already) introduces Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) and…
Actor and professional handsome son of a bitch Idris Elba has been busy in recent years: Winning awards for his roles in Beasts Of No Nation and Luther, headlining massive would-be blockbusters (albeit with underwhelming results), and of course DJing his little heart out as always. One area he’s been deficient?…
As part of their final promotional push for the new season of Westworld, British broadcasting company Now TV decided to scare the ever-loving shit out of some poor Londoners who were just trying to get a drink. They did this by placing “Fred”—a humanoid robot that’s about as close as you can get to a real-life…
In news that is ripping your vinyl CD wallet apart, Staind’s Aaron Lewis and Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland are fucking going at it right now. It all started—well, it all started back in the late ‘90s, when Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst signed Staind to Flip Records, tying the mewling rap-metal imps with the barrel-voiced…
Now that [REDACTED] is out of the picture, Stranger Things is replenishing its stunt-casting coffers with two new Hawkins residents, as Variety reports. First, there’s British actor Cary Elwes, a.k.a. the dashing Westley from ‘80s slumber-party classic The Princess Bride. Elwes has been cast as the mayor of Hawkins, …
